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1. A person who knows how a complex piece of
software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp.
someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone
is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a
wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific
detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a
wizard for something given the time to study it. 2. A person who
is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has
wheel privileges on a system. 3. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix
systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that
`Unix Wizard' is a recognized job title at some corporations and to
most headhunters. See guru, lord high fixer. See also
deep magic, heavy wizardry, incantation, magic,
mutter, rain dance, voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.
